This is an excerpt of a phone call Razzball intercepted during Sunday’s afternoon games. Since every state involved is a two-party consent for recording, we cannot reveal who recorded the call, but it rhymes with Trudy Gramble. Here, let’s listen in: “Hello, this is the CEO of Super Ball, the world’s hardest, bounciest, craziest, shouldn’t-be-used-as-a-baseballiest ball. Who is this calling?” Our Commissioner Rob Manfred disguises his voice so he sounds raspy, “I’m Kathleen Turner. I was wondering if you would sell me 70,000 Super Balls to not be used for baseball purposes.” “Body Heat Kathleen Turner? Not to get all James Lipton, but I am a huge fan of your–” “Okay, toots…” Manfred lowers the phone receiver, to his secretary, “Toots?” Back into the phone, “Um, so don’t make me kill you and blame a different femme fatale. I need those Super Balls.” So, yesterday was bonkers for homers, yet again. I will now list the home runs by guys in just the Astros game: Yulieski Gurriel (2-for-5, 2 runs) hit his 11th; Jose Altuve (3-for-4, 4 runs, 3 RBIs, hitting .347) hit his 13th; Evan Gattis (2-for-5, 2 runs, 4 RBIs) hit his 8th and Carlos Correa (4-for-5, 5 RBIs) and two homers, his 19th and 20th. Holy Salami Tom, there’s a crapton of home runs this year. I have two mixed leagues where I feel like if I’m not getting at least five homers per day, I’m falling behind. Also, on a pitching front, if I can just maintain a 3.50 ERA, I could come in first for ERA. By the way, I hope we’re not sued by Our Commissioner Rob Manfred, but something must be done. Get the Super Balls out of baseball! Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

Brad Peacock – 6 IP, 0 ER, 10 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.63. How do you combat long balls? By starting a pitcher whose last name sounds like an old man screaming in the urinal.

Dallas Keuchel – Threw a bullpen session, and will head out for a rehab assignment soon (eventually?). Keuchel could be a huge difference maker in the 2nd half, or could throw a handful of starts and be saved for the playoffs. Astros have an enviable position to not have to push any of their starters. Or as DJ Khaled would say, Astros have the keys, keys, keys, keys, keys, keys, major key.

Marcus Stroman – 7 IP, 1 ER, 9 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.28. Bet he’s got a next level. That bet’s coming from watching him. He throws some dipsy-doodle pitch; I believe they call it a slider. If he throws that pitch about five percent of the time more, he will up his Ks and be an easy ace. Look at me, Grey Searage.

Luis Severino – 7 IP, 3 ER, 8 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 3.54. Should’ve been the hard-luck loser, but instead was the hard-luck no-decisioner (totally a thing). Severino makes the top 100 for the 2nd half, which is being posted tomorrow, and, honestly, seriously, adverbly, he wasn’t close to missing it.

Masahiro Tanaka – 4 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 5.47. Yeah, he didn’t make the top 100 for the 2nd half. I’m not sure he would make the top 300.

Clint Frazier – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, and 2nd homer in as many games, after launching a game-winning r’tripper on Saturday. “You’ll never catch me!” That’s Eddie Murray, the AL career leader for GWRBIs. Ha, remember that stat? That was sabermetrics in the 1980’s. As for Frazier, I like him, but once everyone is healthy, he could be squeezed for playing time.

Ryan Braun – Brewers said Braun should be healthy by Friday. He couldn’t recover after two DL stints, but will be fine after five days of rest. Yup, that makes sense after scrutiny like an M. Night movie.

Travis Shaw – 2-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 19th homer, hitting .299. Okay, but Tyler Thornburg made a quiche for the Red Sox clubhouse yesterday that Sandoval called “an absolute highlight of the season.”

Stephen Vogt – 1-for-3 and his 4th homer–Wait, no, that’s his 8th home run, because box scores still separate stats when a player is traded to a different league, even though yesterday’s game was the Brewers vs. the Yankees. Smart stuff, MLB!

Stephen Strasburg – 3 IP, 3 ER, but 6 unearned, ERA at 3.43. Damn, I started stumbling around Redd Foxx, clutching my heart, when I saw that ticker shock. Hopefully, this is not the start of Strasburg’s 2nd half decline and/or injured bullshizz.

Joe Ross – Left yesterday’s start with a triceps injury and him and his brother can’t ever stay healthy. Momma Ross, you really should’ve had your boys drink more milk. Some hippie right now is drinking almond milk and just closed this browser window, because I advocated drinking milk and hippies love Razzball.

Julio Teheran – 7 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.79. Don’t know yet if his early season struggles only appear closer in the rear view mirror, or if we’re peeping the future in the rear window like a broken-legged Jimmy Stewart.

Johan Camargo – 3-for-3, 2 runs and his 1st homer, hitting .327, and moved up to the two hole. Okay, need to look at him again. *looks at his stats, vomits, vomit spells out, “Not worth owming,” wipes M with foot into an N so it reads owning* My vomit needs a spellcheck.

Jason Kipnis – Hit the DL with a strained hamstring. He’s been great this year, J.K. of course.

Mike Clevinger – 6 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.00. I told you to grab him in Friday’s Buy, told you to grab him in my post prior to that, and Prospector Ralph gave you a Mike Clevinger breakdown that would make Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal Constitution Breakdown podcast proud (you should listen; you’re welcome). Hashtag stay woke!

Adam Jones – 2-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 14th and 15th homers, hitting .267. To me, this is the equivalent to sitting out the last game of the season to win a batting title, with the last game of the half making the 1st half look better than it was.

Jon Lester – 2/3 IP, 4 ER, and six unearned runs, ERA up to 4.25. If Lester was ground into any finer of a powder, Dave Parker and Dale Berra would’ve come back to Pittsburgh to snort him up.

Jameson Taillon – Scratched yesterday with the flu. Just another testes for him to pass.

Andrew McCutchen – 1-for-4, 2 runs and his 17th homer, hitting .294. If he were to miss the entire 2nd half (doing my best to jinx him), he’d still have a better season than I expected from him.

Josh Harrison – 3-for-5, 3 runs, 2 RBIs and his 10th homer, hitting .280. Harrison is so yawnstipating he’s currently the 20th best 2B on our Player Rater, right by Lowrie and Brandon Phillips. Way above Jose Peraza though. Damn, ‘member all that preseason love for Peraza? Glad I didn’t draft him. Seriously, I didn’t. Man, I can’t even sound sincere to myself as I read this back.

Luis Castillo – 6 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA At 3.13. Sonovabench! That says it all, doesn’t it? It kinda does. I own Castillo and am scared to start him. Love his stuff (98 MPH fastball) and his peripherals (11.7 K/9), but where am I going to trust this guy to start him? In Great American? And go down for the Count? Bleh.

Chris O’Grady – 5 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 4 Ks as he was called up by the Marlins. I appreciate that his last name sounds like a Sanford and Son soundbite, but that’s all I like about him. I wouldn’t even pick him up in NL-Only leagues.

Giancarlo Stanton – 3-for-4, 4 runs and his 25th and 26th homers. He’s on pace for about 47 homers, and he hasn’t been crazy hot at any point this year.

Johnny Cueto – 6 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.51. Doode is straight trash. I hate him. I legit might drop him in my 12-team mixed league over the break if a decent rookie is called up.

Pat Valaika – 2-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 7th homer, hitting .243. I forget if I mentioned this in the top 100 that’s coming tomorrow or if I’ve mentioned it already. Oh no, my past brain has melded with my present brain and doesn’t know what to tell my future brain! Eek, I’m a character from a Christopher Nolan movie! Any hoo! I wouldn’t be shocked if Valaika completely steals Story’s job in the 2nd half, if Story doesn’t quickly come out of his funk.

Kyle Freeland – 8 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 1 Hit, 3 BBs, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.77, and a no hitter through 8 1/3 innings in Coors because 2017 is like when you put your head to the bat handle and spun in circles ten times, then tried to run.

Justin Turner – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 9th and 10th homers, hitting .377. I took some guff in the preseason about how high I ranked Turner, because y’all a bunch of guffers, but now I’m having the last and greatest guffaw!

Clayton Kershaw – 9 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 13 Ks, ERA at 2.18. This is hilarious in a “Holy crap, Kershaw is so insane” type way. He had 13 strikeouts yesterday, and a complete game, and threw less than 100 pitches –> 99 pitches, 73 strikes. I just shook my head incredulously.

Danny Duffy – 7 IP, 5 ER, ERA up to 3.76. I’ve been off Duffy since hundreds had small faces.

A.J. Pollock – 1-for-3 and a slam (3) and double legs (12, 13). Well, it only took a little more than half a season for his first big game. Now I see the 3rd round value.

Aaron Nola – 8 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.59. I started streaming Nola three starts ago, and, on my team, his stats are 1.21 ERA, 0.76, 25 Ks in 22 1/3 IP with two wins, and now I don’t want to drop him. Stream-o-Nator likes his next start too, even though I’m thinking Stream-o-Nator is crazy. Ugh, I’m conflicted like a cow that owns a butcher shop. Hmm, maybe this is why cows don’t own butcher shops. Now I’m conflicted and confused — ugh, I’m conflused!

Freddy Galvis – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 9th and 10th homers, hitting .251. Dropped this truth bomb before, but so glad I drafted Galvis in a few deeper leagues for next to nothing, because everyone was gassed up on the J.P. Crawford helium. I’m too lazy to research it, but I’m pretty sure Crawford went for a higher price than Galvis in my NL-Only leagues.

Jerad Eickhoff – 5 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.63. Before we start reaching around on each other going for the Jer-khoff, this was vs. the Padres.

Nick Williams – 2-for-4 and his 1st homer, hitting .281. For what it’s Werth, his homer barely reached the seats. A silly dunker. A ridicky-donk.

Odubel Herrera – 1-for-4 and his 6th homer. I just dropped him prior to this game (because he’s been so sucky), so you can thank me for the home run. Don’t regret the drop one bit either. With ODB, you best protect from the dreck.

Aaron Altherr – 2-for-3, 2 runs and a slam (14) and legs (5), hitting .284. Altherr’s having a Sunday Santana-type season, i.e., he’s been more valuable than you prolly realize, I before E, except in Teixeira, you should own him.

Zack Wheeler – 6 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.86. First start over four innings since his return from the DL. The Mets are obviously being careful with the one elbow tendon their entire pitching staff is borrowing. You heard of a lending library? This elbow is from a bending library.

Steven Matz – 4 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 3.05. Under a sign that reads, ‘Bending Library,’ Matz looks at his watch, you can tell he’s worried about something. He mumbles to himself, “Why isn’t Wheeler back with that elbow yet?”

Paul DeJong – 2-for-4 and his 9th homer, and third homer in three games, and like his 18th homer in the last five days, and hitting about nine thousand. I don’t like pointing out hot schmotatoes going into the break, because I’m not sure if they’ll still be hot after a four day layoff, but DeJong’s been fire emoji recently.

Tommy Pham – 3-for-3, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 11th homer, hitting .299. Not sure where I heard about Pham before. Dot dot dot. Oh, I know! I just told you to pick him up on Friday with my Tommy Pham fantasy (clickbait!).

Lance Lynn – 7 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.61. In one league where I have no choice, I’ve been starting Lynn every time out, and his ERA might actually be leading my team for starters. Oy gevalt.

David Price – 6 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.91. After every one of his starts, I open his player page, because I want to be able to report that Price is all fixy-ma-boobbied, but I’m just not getting that from looking at his peripherals.

Dustin Pedroia – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 4th homer, and 2nd one this weekend. Damn, I had him on Thursday, because Pedroia has been hot for almost a week now, but I dropped him to keep Tulowitzki on my team, who also hit two homers this weekend. Essentially, even when wrong, I’m right. *blows on knuckles, wipes knuckles on shirt, realizes had ink on knuckles* Damn, this is my favorite I’m With Stupid t-shirt!

Brad Miller – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, and an absolute bomb to deep center. Half of me wants to say to grab Miller. The other half of me wants to wait to see more. The third half of me can’t believe how many halves I have.

Alex Cobb – 7 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 3.75. The bats were back on Sunday, but this past Saturday felt like getaway day for the entire league. As if the hitters had already packed their bats for the All-Star break, and were just going through the motions. One baseball player, who wished to remain anonymous, said of the upcoming break, “I need to see my baby’s momma Monday afternoon for lunch and my girlfriend for Monday night dinner, then home by ten o’clock or else my wife will give me crap. Yeah, mang, my wife only puts up with me two-timing her because I respect her enough to get home before she falls asleep.”

Great stuff …I am excited to see the top 100 for the 2nd half. I only wish ANY of my teams had an ERA of less the 3.50 …seems like a pipe dream. I only hope I can stream the right guys or find some hidden gem(s) in SP to lead me to the promised land in at least one league. A nation of razzballers look to you Mr Grey.

I am done with zunino. He burned me again. I added him and missed all of his good streak. I got the bad side of course. I finally caved and went after this guy thinking it would be different. Wrong as usual. Which catcher do you like better ros: gattis or vogt? R,hr,tb,obp,rbi,an. I realize both of these guys split time, but actually hit when they play vs strikeout 40% of the time.

Dejong on fire. He was added in my league and of course someone is benefiting. The dude has 4 walks in 133 plate appearances and a 30% k rate. That is a 0.1 bb/k rate. Wow! His hot streak will not last or maybe it will since I didn’t add him. I am sure if I added him when andrus was off for his 3-day paternity stint he would have done nothing. Instead I got 1 lousy hit over 3 games from arcia.

This time of year I always think about how glad I am to rest and not set lineups for a few days, then it occurs to me how tired all the players must be. If you were a border-line all-star, Are you sure you’d want to be selected as a reserve for the game? I don’t know if I would.

My SP staff in a 14-team roto league is Severino, Carrasco, Wood, McCullers, Duffy. I’ll need to pick up one more starter to stay within striking distance of the innings cap (I’m 31 innings down at the break), or I could pick up two if Duffy is a drop. The available names: Morton, Folty, Teheran, Castillo, Kyle Hendricks (supposedly he’ll be back just after the break). What do you think?

Which DL stash is most likely to contribute in a redraft roto league, between Salazar and Familia?

Different roto league: Do you still prefer Mallux Smith over Margot? I need SBs.

What’s the story with Story? Unlucky? Mechanics off? Both?
Can you throw a couple of extra bananas to the roomful of monkeys at Razzball HQ and have them do a write-up?
Would you pull the plug in a 10 team redraft league?
Yo, I’ve got questions!

@Jw: Spit some names from the wire at us. Are you dropping him for someone like Arcia? Or to stream a pitcher? Options/needs matter. As does team makeup. Not a bad idea to request a Bear/Bull, I bet one of those is coming soon. But like Grey kind of notes in the blurb, every time Valailka gets a start/hit I grow more and more concerned. The Rox are fighting for a WC, 7ish games up on the Cubs for the second WC. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him get the Schwarber treatment, which is also what Grey kind of alluded to above.

I just dropped him in a 10 team h2h redraft league, as I can also roster Arcia, Nunez, Villar. It feels great, I will say that. But in my 12 team mixed roto. Not ready to cut bait just yet. Will pull the trigger before the Rox do if I must. But can also see riding this shizz out until he is sent down or hits 10 homers before the trade deadline.

Hi Grey. Great stuff, as always! Keeper question for you. I need to decide on two long-term contracts by tomorrow. My league is 10 teams, $260, with 24 players (15 hitters with 2 utility), 8 reserves, drafting from AL, NL East, NL Central. I have Bregman and Duvall at $3 each this year, and can keep each at $8 in 2018 and at $13 in 2019. I’m undecided on how long to keep each and could use some expert prognostication. Any thoughts? Thanks!

What do you think of Eugenio Suarez in the second half? Its an avg and obp league and Freeman just gained 3B eligibility. Do I just drop Suarez when a hot bat or starter comes available or his good enough to ride the pine at least?

@knucks: Schoop has had a better year than Odor and doesn’t look like he’s slowing down. Do you have a MI/UTIL slot or is one of Odor/Schoop consistently on your bench? I was mentioning above (or below) that I just dropped Story in a 10 team h2h, but not yet in my 12 team roto. Hard to wait any longer in a shallow league. Maybe you can package Story with Schoop or Odor and get Lindor plus another useful bat/arm? Good luck bruthaman!

Was offered his DJ LeMahieu for my Duffy? Would you accept or hold down the ship until Trea returns? If I accepted I would probably drop Forsythe for a middle RP like Harris since I’m already streaming my last few SPs and we’re only allowed 3 adds per week. Currently sitting in 4th place.

Grey, serious question. If baseball writers who hate players for juicing get effed over and excluded from the hall will there come a day they find out the ball was juiced and punish an entire generation of players for a bouncier baseball? I dunno. Gimme closer speculation, I was gonna grab Vizciano, Kahle, and Soria. Now KC thinks it’s in it so maybe skip Soria? Who is for sure getting traded so I can steal sagnof, all closers are taken. Thanks man!

@Lt: I’m holding Viz on the DL at the moment. Left the other two on the wire. That was before I read the Nate Jones just had to slow down activity during the break due to discomfort.

I’d rank em Viz, Kahnle, Soria at the moment. Also have eyes on Bruce Rondon/Alex Wilson/Shane Greene, Familia, Madson/Doolittle right now. Maybe Phil Maton if the Padres go full sell with Hand/Maurer. Good luck!

Looking for some SP help for the second half (who isn’t ).
Any of these FA could break out and are worth to pickup or are just streamers :
Mirandra -tough schedule the start off the 2nd half
Snell
Luke Weaver- will he get a chance
A.Moore – lack of K’s
Musgrove
C.Kuhl
The following I own , cut any of them for any of the FA ?
Mike Montgomery , J Hoffman and Eickhoff
6×6 mixed daily Roto

Great write up as always. Back from Israel and read your articles every day while over there.

1) would you add Marwin Gonzalez, Pham, or reddick over any batter in my lineup?
2) would you add one or more of Luis Castillo, RA Dickey, Ian Kennedy over any pitcher in my lineup?
2) Taking into consideration question 2, Which pitcher do you drop to activate Trout?

Great work my man, in a 12 team h2h category league with two categories being avg and obp. A guy offered me machado and fullmer for my arenado. Machado and arenado are same price to keep but I’m leaning towards not taking the deal. What say you? Thanks.

Well, you opened the door with your hippie comment. I gotta say, I’ve been tied to the Whipping Post since Opening Day when Matt Strahm got his tits lit (4 ER, only recording 1 out).

Much of the same since then with my SP/RP streaming this year, though I know I’m not alone in this. Which you speak to at the top of the post. Going into the break, I had made it my priority to NOT own a pitcher who has a WHIP higher then my current Roto WHIP (1.32) or ERA (4.11), so not like that was a difficult task in the slightest!

RIP Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman. Had tix to see Allman a few times in the past couple year’s and he just kept ominously cancelling.

@Alex: There def will be, enjoy that one man, one of the best things going right now. Have you seen them yet? I haven’t seen him with Susan yet, but saw The Derek Trucks Band a few years back in a theater. Was melted into my seat.

@Nightmare!: I watched Snowfall, yeah… It was aight, doesn’t feel like up to the level of some other recent prestige shows… 1. Seager 2. Myers 3. Doubt it, Tapia does 4. Could be on Stras, but you can’t trade an SP for another SP, Kluber?

Grey!! Thx for the first half analysis, look forward to these every morning.

Grey, J, anyone, I really want Rich Hill and am thinking of dropping one of my bats for him. Any thoughts on who to lose? Pitcher, bat, or hold? Once Desmond comes back I will need to drop someone also. Danke!

Not sure if Judge will keep up the ridiclous pace but also worried that Stras will fall off the second half as he has already struggled the last month. I own Keuchel, C Anderson and Syndegard but all of them are on the DL. Thoughts?

Do you think Cespedes is going to break out of it? I was trying to trade Jay Bruce but now I’m not so sure. Traded Jimmy Nelson for Yoenis in a buy low move, but he’s been worse than awful. Regretting.

Trade Robbie Ray for Bellinger in H2H points league? My OF is Trout, Jones, Grichuk, Polanco in 3OF league. My other SP are Quintana, Taillon, Paxton, Lynn, Happ, Hill and both Grays with Salazar on the DL. Would you do the trade and if so would you drop Grichuk?

One more – 12 team OPS league…OF has been a struggle all year, Trumbo really the only main stay, currently supplementing with a mix of Maybin, Kepler, Merrifield and Chisenhall. Slightly heavy at MI with Schoop, Lindor, Odor and Simmons. Would you make a move for Cespedes and offer, say, Maybin and Simmons? The Cespedes owner is looking for steals.

Was offered either Smoak or Morrison for Cozart. I have Seagar at short, Cozart at MI, Semien on bench, A Rosario waiting. I have Adams at first, Shaw at third, Suarez at CI, Chris Davis on DL. Would you take one of them?

Just finished the first episode of Breakdown. First thought… there are so many thinks broken in the country that need to be fixed. Thanks again. This sounds like another great Making a Murder type of story, which I always find very interesting. Also, the guy using the term “snitches” a bunch towards the end made me chuckle.

Came here to post and recalled something i saw on the tweetdeck late yesterday… another thing we need to fix. MLB should to make the Futures game the Sunday Night game on ESPN before the break starts. Doesn’t seem all that fair to those teams. Plus there is a fair amount of interest in the Futures game. ESPN would obviously likely disagree, I’m sure.

@Grey: Yes, frustration that eventually leads to some sort of enjoyable payoff I hope… Less likely in these types of biographical real-life situational stories. But this is part of the enjoyment of Twin Peaks. Its the best part of the new stuff that’s happening right now for sure. Its pretty damn confusingly frustrating. But excited to watch it the second time through, once its over, picking up on a million different things that you would never realize until the show ends.

You watched that Hulu show with James Franco that was based of the Stephen King book about the JFK assassanation? I think we already talked about this, but that was a great show.

I had a utility spot open in my 10-team league and picked up Yonder Alonso (51% owned) last night. Was looking at my team this morning and began comparing him to my current 1st baseman, Jose Abreu (97% owned)…R/HR/RBI/SB/OBP/SLG

Absolutely crazy how Alonso is only owned in 51% of leagues. He’s definitely getting traded before the deadline, but do you think he keeps this up in the 2nd half? Did he make the Top 100? You the poop!

-Can’t divorce him, it’ll cost me too much
-Can’t trade him, nobody else wants him enough
-Can’t kill him, because, laws and stuff
-Can’t kill myself, because, it’s a fantasy baseball team, that’s a silly reason to do that
-And finally, I can’t believe at one time I was happy with him as my 5th round pick. At the same time, nobody should be married to their 5th choice.

@Grey: Oh… maybe I should have a 3way with him and Verlander. I hear it’s always better to do that with a righty and a lefty.

Ah EF-EM-EL

Anywho – Joe Ross committed armicide while I was living on a stream with him… Who should be my replacement for the return of the games that count (no, I don’t care about home field advantage is the WS as it doesn’t affect my fantasy team and my real world baseball team, the Detroit Ligers, suck)

@Weird Fishes: There’s not much on my wire going into the break so I decided to hold Tapia and grab Parra. Will see how long it makes sense to hold both. Or will quickly drop one or both if something new and shiny is available.

Is it time to move on from Cargo? Also… Dozier seems to have dropped from a top 5 2nd baseman to a top 15… suffering from slacking players. Happy I traded for Schoop, he’s been nothing but consistent for me.

My two bottom OF’s are Conforto and Starling Marte. I currently have Ed Rodriguez coming back after the break and I will need to activate him to help my pitching staff. I’ll have to drop either Conforto or Marte to do this. Who should I let go?

So judging from your Jon Lester “powdered” review you would say Cutch for Lester “blows”? Also, I put in a waiver request for Quintana in my 10 team. Do i drop Tapia or Conforto to make it happen orrrrrr is Quintana just going to he a “guy” in the second half and im better off w/out him? Needing to balance my whip/era.
Ok, go…….

I have Matz at $8, could keep him for $12 for next year & $15 the year after. Seager is $19 (could be kept for $23 then $29) and Kemp is $15 (could be kept for $19). Still do the deal? I do have other keeper candidates but I’ve sold a bunch to improve and go for it this year. Matz is fragile but the salary is tempting should he stay healthy (big if).

I traded for Jup and Choo in a 12 team dynasty, lost A. Miller and Piscotty. I’m playing for next year.
Need to drop either Choo or O. Herrera? Thinking Choo because of his age and who is on the wire.
I need a pitcher to replace Miller. None of the SP’s seem worth it, so I have it narrowed down to Betances or A. Bradley?

Thanks! You’d keep Gyorko over both Reddick and Conforto? I can see the justification behind dropping Reddick since he’s part time, but Conforto is a better hitter than Gyorko, no? Although The Mets have their own issues with platooning him with the rest of their OF…

@Grey: thoughts on ender ROS? seems like he hasnt run as much recently. if i need help in sbs/runs, you think worth trying to swap someone like peacock for him or hold and just grab someone like mallex off the ww?

Grey 4×4 12 team roto dead last and suck. Do I trade my $7 sonny Gray in the first year of his three year contract for the 20th minor league pick? Brandan Marsh, Jordan Adele and Wil Benson are in the range of prospect that I would likely have availible. Thanks

All about H2H playoffs in September in our 12 teamer… so making moves now with trade deadline approaching. My staff:
Kershaw, Severino, Verlander, Nova, Taillion, Faria, Happ (streamer?). Would you trade
1. Nova and Severino for his Greinke?
2. Nova and Faria for his Greinke?
3. Nova and Taillon for his Greinke?
If so, please rank favorite to worst.

I have Matz at $8, could keep him for $12 for next year & $15 the year after. Seager is $19 (could be kept for $23 then $29) and Kemp is $15 (could be kept for $19). Still do the deal? I do have other keeper candidates but I’ve sold a bunch to improve and go for it this year. Matz is fragile but the salary is tempting should he stay healthy (big if).

Grey
I need to cut two hitters in a limited transaction 5×5. Who would you cut from Franco, Bregman, Odubel, Melky and Semien? I need to keep at least 1 of the 3B, but other than that I don’t care too much about their position or relative strengths. Leaning towards cutting Semien and Melky. Thanks in advance!

seriously did the mess intentionally find the worst “doctors” to deal with their pitchers or what?

“Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen on Sunday revealed that the muscles behind Harvey’s shoulder following his thoracic outlet surgery had “totally atrophied” and were roughly half the size of those on his left shoulder. Warten says that doctors didn’t discover this until the righty was placed on the disabled list last month”

@Grey: worst part is HOW THE F do “doctors” not notice that MUCH earlier? and how would harvey himself not have SOME inkling as to this kind of thing happening? unless he’s literally in a constant state of numbness (and even then you’d NOTICE your muscles being half the size on one part of your body and not the other side)

In a standard yahoo points league would you flip Adam Jones for Cueto my OF is already Benny biceps, Stanton and Judge I also have Kris Davis and can swap Jose rameriz into the of slot cause I have Donaldson. I could use pitching

WWGD…I’ve been punting saves all year and don’t have any closers, plan was to get some closers along the way but just got too caught up with picking up the hot bat or SP. Would you try and trade for a closer and then build around him for the fantasy playoffs or just keep going as is? If you’d try and get in the save game, is mcculers for a top closer fair? looks like it based on your rankings